Josiah Owen (1711?–1755) was a Welsh Presbyterian minister in north England, known as a controversialist.
[1] Some time after June 1740 Owen became minister of Blackwater Street Chapel, Rochdale, Lancashire.
With James Wood as ally, he is said to have been instrumental in the period about 1740 to 1750) in stopping the customary questions on the internal state of congregations from the meeting’ of the Lancashire ministers.
[1][3] He published a sermon with the title, All is well; or the Defeat of the late Rebellion … an exalted and illustrious Blessing, 1746.
John Byrom referred in An Epistle to a Friend to "the low-bred O——ns of the age", and published a ballad on "the zealot of Rochdale", under the title of Sir Lowbred O .. N, or the Hottentot Knight.